Chase Douglas: Input Action Event Sequences
There is an unsolved problem in modern toolkits. The solutions provided so far are merely hacks that solve 90% of problems while leaving corner cases. The problem revolves around how to handle input...
View ArticleMarcin Juszkiewicz: Bought Archos 80 G9 Turbo tablet
During last Linaro Connect I bought myself an Android tablet. After checking what is on market decided to buy Archos 80 G9 Turbo. According to Amazon product page it had to have 1.5GHz OMAP4460 cpu and...
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Pablo Rubianes: Montevideo, Ubuntu Welcome Day!!!
Sorry for the time it took to post this results, so here I go! The first Ubuntu welcome Day was a big hit! for the onces who don’t remember or not know about this idea, Welcome Day is a street meeting...
View ArticleJim Campbell: Expanding tables and other elements in Mallard
I’m at the GNOME documentation hackfest in Brno, Czech Republic, and we’ve been updating help for GNOME platform and applications in advance of GNOME 3.4. As part of the event, we’ve been reviewing our...
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Canonical Design Team: Sound theme results
First of all, thank you all for your feedback in both the blog post and, most importantly, the survey. Over 2000 surveys were completed, which is amazing. We are really quite overwhelmed with the...
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Aaron Toponce: Randomize First, Then Encrypt Your Block Device
This blog post is in continuation of the previous post, where I showed why you should not use ECB when encrypting your data. Well, when putting down an encrypted filesystem, such as LUKS, you’ve...
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Rick Spencer: GObject Introspection Prompts
Dang, I hate how I often but "GIO" instead of "GOI".Anyway, I'm starting a week of focusing on coding. Unfortunately I have a bunch of meetings that I cannot escape, but otherwise, I cancelled all...
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Jonathan Carter: LTSP Upstream
I’m now an LTSP developer! I came across LTSP for the first time in 2003. Little did I know that I’d still be using it 9 years later, would attend two LTSP hackfesst in South West Harbor (Maine, US)...
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Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Accomplishments Demo
After another furious week of hacking on my little project I have added a number of new features: Trophies that are verified by the verification server are now GPG signed so they can’t be faked on the...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 253
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #253 for the week February 13 – 19, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu Server Survey 2012 Ubuntu 12.04...
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Dustin Kirkland: Thoughts on Hiring Linux Hackers (in 2012)
I have interviewed hundreds of candidates and had the delight of hiring dozens of Linux and open source developers, engineers, and interns over the last 10 years -- at IBM, Canonical, and now Gazzang....
View ArticleMartin Pitt: power-usage-report: Find power drain causes
Part of our efforts to reduce power consumption in Ubuntu is to provide an easy tool to hunt down which programs and devices are to blame for inordinate power consumption. powertop’s interactive mode...
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Laura Czajkowski: New year got off to a good start
It’s been ages since I’ve posted, I need to get better at this. But so far 2012 has gotten off to a good start. I finally had the back surgery on my back, where they removed part of a bulging disc, it...
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Dustin Kirkland: Still Running Ubuntu in 2012
Winter time is road race season in Austin, Texas. The weather is cool and sunny, and it's actually quite a nice time to venture out for some long runs. I've run three races in Austin so far this...
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Daniel Holbach: Making Ubuntu development more personal
Getting involved in Open Source development can seem a bit daunting, first you have to go through the documentation, then find a task you are interested in, then work on a fix and then, although the...
View ArticleSridhar Dhanapalan: OLPC Australia Education Newsletter
Editions 7 and 8 of the OLPC Australia Education Newsletter have come out in the past few weeks. In each edition, we will provide news, tips and tricks and stories from the field. To subscribe, send an...
View ArticleMichael Hall: Criticism: You’re doing it wrong
There have been some recent accusation that the Ubuntu community isn’t taking criticism well. However, those making the accusations seem to have a misunderstanding about what exactly criticism is. In...
View ArticleLaunchpad News: Reimagining the nature of privacy in Launchpad (part 3)
We are reimagining the nature of privacy in Launchpad. The goal of the disclosure feature is to introduce true private projects, and we are reconciling the contradictory implementations of privacy in...
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Daniel Holbach: Making Ubuntu better: the Italian team
From 2nd-4th March 2012 we will hold an Ubuntu Global Jam again. This is an event where Ubuntu teams around the world come together, meet locally and together make Ubuntu better. We have a number of...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Where are you Latin America?
Right now we don’t have any Latin American LoCo teams listed for the global jam! Are you planning an event for this upcoming global jam? Don’t forget to register on the loco directory so people can see...
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